"History's Greatest Monsters" is a regular evaluation of albums deemed some of the worst in history. We do this not for the sake of schadenfreude, but to try to understand how these reputations were earned. Certainly, there are bound to be pleasant surprises. And certainly, there will be some ...

With perseverance, hard work, smarts, and perhaps a little luck, I will become a high school English and Social Studies teacher within the next year. I have been on somewhat of a sabbatical from my music writing while studying in this endeavor. But, I have not strayed from my love of music. In ...

To a certain degree, everyone who jumps into the field of music journalism does so because of a passionate hunger for hearing something new and exciting. When it comes to finding that something new and exciting, the deeper one digs into new sounds and unheard styles, the more apparent it becomes ...

There isn't much in life as satisfying as the perfect three-minute pop song. But sometimes, that's just not enough. Yet if perfecting a concise pop single takes a certain level of talent that not everyone can master, making a perfect 10-minute song is just that much harder. History has shown that, ...

There's something deeply, deeply unsettling about Pop. 1280. The New York band specializes in brutal, abrasive sounds, inspired by a bruised and bloodied mixture of The Jesus Lizard, noir, The Birthday Party, coldwave, the impending apocalypse, desolation, a hopeless future, and the innate desire ...

Around the late '80s, Oxford psych-rock band Ride unexpectedly gave birth to the name of a new genre because of their somewhat introverted performance style. Taking note of the way the band members' habit of looking down while playing, British journalists named the genre "shoegaze," a once joking ...

Two weeks have already lapsed in 2012, and here I am, just now getting to my list of New Year's resolutions. Perhaps my first should be to make a stronger attempt at being punctual, but as far as I'm concerned this is right on time. If it's still January, it's still fair game, even if everyone ...

Kate Bush is many things: a powerfully expressive singer, a prolific and talented songwriter, a proud mother, a perfectionist producer and a unique and singular artist on the whole. She’s been known to perform emotional and delicate ballads built on nothing more than a piano and her voice, so it’s ...

With 2011 behind us, most music websites and publications have since moved on from their 'best of the year' lists. The rankings provide the perfect opportunity to catch up on any albums that may have slipped under the radar the first time around, and also revisit some old(ish) favorites. Despite ...

Winter break is finally over for us, which means it's time to start looking forward to the next new batch of presents - 2012's new music releases! There's an exhaustingly long list of artists who have music coming out in the months to come, and we whittled it down to our list of the 20 most ...